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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

You can't go party the night before thinking practice is at 2p when it could be at 5a.

Keeps everything thinking about football and football only. Which is how camp should be.

Even high schools do this - hell, they even did it in Remember The Titans, lol.

It's a good way to see who can lock in and focus and put away all the distractions for 2 weeks and get through camp - together. If you practice at the same time every year, guys will figure out when they can cut corners.

Because during every presser during the Hoke era...people would bitch about how he didn't talk enough/detail anything. It was "Fort Schembechler returns!" and people liked that because Rich Rod would damn near give you the game plan if you let him.

Very interesting how perception changes even though in reality not much did (other than the biggest and most important change...the person).

Hoke/Harbaugh basically say the exact same things during press conferences, Harbaugh is just more weird/quirky and he has no attention span.

They're both not giving secrets away, they're both all about the TEAM, they're both obsessed with Bo, they're both selling family and the Michigan way and Michigan tradition, they both can be combative, they both can be short, they both can be funny or engaging at times. They're both obsessed with TOUGHNESS. Neither would win press conference speaker of the year.

The difference isn't with the media or in press conference...the difference is in knowledge, ability, talent, skill of being a head football coach. One is one of the best in the world - the other is a very good position coach who can run a team if asked.

***The one caveat with media - the biggest difference between the two...is social media. Harbaugh wants to win at everything, even Twitter and his social media presence is unreal. He's a master behind social media. Hoke couldn't even log into his gmail account.

Until schemes changed and coaches and teams got better...that was the reality. Michigan in Michigan Stadium was 7-0 before opening kickoff. And stapping on the winged helmet was all we needed to do against lesser teams because we were THAT much better than them.

In the 90's, we could've played our wost game of the decade and a MAC school play it's best and we still would've won. We were just so much better than many of the teams we played.

Early season noon kickoffs versus lesser opponents used to be more like scrimmages than games. I remember I'd barely watch the other team, I'd watch how our guys were progressing.

Now the conference is better, college football is better and we're worse...all at the same time. The winged helmet means nothing to another team. We have to play well to beat anyone.

Hoke basically said the exact same stuff...how do you think MANBALL started?

In the end, Harbaugh's just a better football coach, it's that simple. In order to play football, you have to have toughness, it's a pretty obvious statement.

Rich Rod wanted toughness, Hoke wanted toughness, every football coach wants toughness. It's essential to winning unless you're 5 times more talented than the team you're playing - which isn't the case in D1 college football.

The game of football is tough, both mentally and phycially by nature. Obviously you want to be the toughest team on the field.

None of this is news and none should get the fan base all excited. The last coach said the exact same thing.

Get excited because Jim Harbaugh is a MUCH better football coach than our last one - and arguably our best coach since Bo Schembechler.

If Dymonte Thomas, Shane Morris and Kyle Kalis had 3 stars...would any of you list them?

It's not like ANY of those guys are 2nd year players. They're each a verteran at this point and not one has really done anything. Kalis has done the most, but he's also played more than the other 2.

It's just weird to watch their names pop up year after year and they haven't shown anything that says "next year that guy is going to be GREAT!"

They may have shown that by their last year they may be serviceable...like Jamar Adams, or Brandon Harrison, or Todd Howard, or Morgan Trent. But none of those guys were world beaters...they just got pretty good their senior year - especially compared to earlier in their careers.

Shane Morris looked like the worst starting QB in Michigan history in his most recent start and now he's going to be a breakout player? Kalis hasn't been all-B1G, just average over his career and Thomas' biggest play is a blocked punt.

At least if you go back and look at Stribling's first year, you see a guy who was always in position, but just some bad luck or 1 detail away from a huge play. The potential is right there in front of you. I get that type of mention.

I'm not trying to rag on the guys...but why these guys? Why not Terry Richardson? Why not Ross Douglas? Why not Ja'Ron Dukes?

It's too hard with a new coach, too much up in the air. If I can get some practice rumblings, I'll definitely do one during fall camp. Right now it would just be a bunch of /'s and you'd be teasing me because of them.

I'll wait until I hear more about scheme and I hear who's playing well in fall camp.